To be more exact, I have just become a VMWare Certified Professional (VCP4).

For an out and out Lotus techie this may seem a departure from the Yellow straight and narrow, but it actually plays well into the kind of Domino infrastructure projects we are currently engaged on. Our major theme when working with customers on Domino upgrades to 8/8.5 and now 8.5.1, is to use the process as an opportunity to enhance their environment. This can be done through deploying new features as part of the upgrade, optimising performance, consolidating servers and extending functionality though services such as Traveller, web-enabling apps with Xpages - you all know the rest.

So far, so standard, but we are increasingly integrating options for virtualization into Domino projects as customers are looking to reduce their IT footprint, make their infrastructure more flexible (Agile anyone?), and having an eye to centralised off-site services (enter the Public / Private Cloud discussion).

I'm now one of four VCPs at LAN2LAN, and will work with our Virtualization Practice on Domino related projects. One of the benefits of our multi-tier approach is that we have HP hardware and SAN expertise in house, together with network and Microsoft professionals, allowing us deliver an end to end solution for our customers.

The future is still bright Yellow for me, but perhaps running on Yellow Blades.

Comments (2) Peter Smith December 4th, 2009 12:09:48

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